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America Is Losing the Battle of the Red Sea (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

A bolt-from-the-blue attack by Hamas produced the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.

I hate Bloomberg and whoever writes for it. Who gives a fuck about some criminal settlers who got killed? Palestine is for Palestinians and they have every right to resist foreign invaders even if they were Jewish invaders. Also no mention of Israel’s genocidal response. Racist swines.

Still an entertaining read given where it is from.

They are nominally attacking out of sympathy for the Palestinian people

They said they will stop if the genocide stops. Stop the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and find out. It should be very easy to call their bluff.

Iran has provided weapons and the know-how needed to manufacture them.

No. Yemen’s missile program started decades ago with the help of the USSR.

Since October 2023, they have allowed most of China’s shipping to pass without harm.

Not just the Chinese. The embargo is on US, UK, Israeli ships and any ship heading to Israeli ports in Occupied Palestine

Beijing and Moscow reap geopolitical rewards when America is burdened by Middle Eastern conflicts, so both are willing to let this crisis fester, or even make it worse.

Are you sure it isn’t Washington DC by allowing the genocide to continue?

Russia’s war in Ukraine is simultaneously stressing another bedrock principle, the norm against forcible conquest.

Completely ignoring Israel doing the same to Palestinians since at least 1967.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What norm against forcible conquest?? Even ignoring Palestine, what the fuck was Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, all of south and Central America at least once per country, half of Asia… I’m trying to limit myself to relatively recent history and the US by the way.